FERNAND RENARD

Fernand Renard is a trompe l'oeil  - “deceive the eye” -  painter of extremely high level. He is highly valued for his illusionist still life’s depicting birds, insects, vases, flowers, baskets, fruits and other objects. 

Painting images that are impossible to distinguish from reality has been a challenge for artists of all periods. The ability to deceive the viewer by making the painted seem real through the laws of optics and perspective is a visual game of which the earliest examples are known from descriptions in Greek literary texts. Since then, trompe l’oeil has been extensively present in the arts, particularly flourishing in periods such as the Renaissance and Baroque. The golden age of trompe l'oeil was undoubtedly the art of the Netherlands in the 17th century.